WIDTH: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for WIDTH?

Need another word that means the same as “width”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “width” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Width” are: breadth, wideness, broadness, thickness, spread, span, diameter, girth, range, compass, scope, scale, sweep, extent, extensiveness, vastness, immensity, immenseness, expansiveness, comprehensiveness

Width as a Noun

Definitions of "Width" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “width” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The measurement or extent of something from side to side; the lesser of two or the least of three dimensions of a body.
• The sideways extent of a swimming pool as a measure of the distance swum.
• The extent of something from side to side.
• A piece of something at its full extent from side to side.
• Wide range or extent.

Synonyms of "Width" as a noun (20 Words)

breadth	Wide range or extent. The boat measured 27 feet in breadth.
broadness	The property of being wide; having great width.
compass	An instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it. Within the compass of education.
comprehensiveness	The capacity to understand a broad range of topics. The depth and comprehensiveness of his knowledge is simply breathtaking.
diameter	A straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface.
expansiveness	A friendly open trait of a talkative person. The expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed.
extensiveness	Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness. The very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it.
extent	The area covered by something. Decision making was to a large extent outside his control.
girth	The distance around a person’s body. An ivy clad tree of immense girth.
immenseness	Unusual largeness in size or extent or number.
immensity	The extremely large size, scale, or extent of something. I have no illusions about the immensity of this task.
range	A series of hills or mountains. Grand hotels were outside my price range.
scale	A white deposit formed in a kettle, boiler, etc. by the evaporation of water containing lime. The scale of the map.
scope	A telescope microscope or other device having a name ending in scope. Within the scope of an investigation.
span	The wingspan of an aircraft or a bird. The gannets had black tipped wings with a six foot span.
spread	The fact or process of spreading over an area. They put out quite a spread.
sweep	A sweepstake. The police finished their sweep through the woods.
thickness	A broad or deep part of a specified thing. He gave his eyes time to adjust to the thickness of the fog.
vastness	Unusual largeness in size or extent or number. The vastness of the Atlantic Ocean.
wideness	Unusual largeness in size or extent or number.

Usage Examples of "Width" as a noun

• The width of experience required for these positions.
• A single width of hardboard.
• The yard was about seven feet in width.

Associations of "Width" (30 Words)

bottleneck	The style of playing that uses a bottleneck. Animated films are still stymied by a technological bottleneck.
breadth	A piece of cloth of standard or full width. The boat measured 27 feet in breadth.
constricted	Drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically. A constricted blood vessel.
cramped	(of handwriting) small and difficult to read. Cramped quarters.
dense	Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Dense as lead.
diaphanous	(especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent. A hat with a diaphanous veil.
elongated	Long in relation to width, especially unusually so. Picasso s elongated Don Quixote.
extent	The particular degree to which something is or is believed to be the case. The extent of the damage.
foyer	An entrance hall or other open area in a building used by the public, especially a hotel or theatre. The foyer of the concert hall.
gangling	Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. A gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks.
gangly	Tall and thin and having long slender limbs.
lissom	Moving and bending with ease. The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers.
membrane	A thin pliable sheet of material forming a barrier or lining. The mucous membrane.
narrow	Make or become more narrow or restricted. I cannot narrow down the rules for this game.
narrowed	Reduced in size as by squeezing together. Narrowed arteries impair blood circulation.
packed	Filled to capacity. Packed snow.
poky	Small and remote and insignificant. Passed a series of poky little one horse towns.
scope	A telescope microscope or other device having a name ending in scope. It is important that a project is scoped correctly to ensure the budget can be accurately defined.
size	Alter or sort in terms of size or according to size. Average size house.
skinny	A skinny person. I love jeans either bootcut or skinny.
slender	Being of delicate or slender build. People of slender means.
slice	Cut something especially food into slices. A slice of bread.
streamlined	Having been made simpler and more efficient or effective. Short streamlined meetings.
swath	A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing.
taper	Gradually lessen. The strong taper of her back.
thick	Not thin of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions. Thick fog.
thin	Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. Thin out the rows of peas.
underweight	Invest in (a market sector, industry, etc.) to a lesser than normal degree. We feared the hot air balloon had been underweighted.
wiry	Of hair that resembles wire in stiffness. Bernadette was a small wiry woman.
withered	(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture. Withered vines.